Ranganathan kicks off
Working group of the concomitance BBAA Library UCM.
The new year sees the start of Ranganathan: a working group consisting of different library experts or experts linked to the life of the library who will seek to explore the issues raised by the assignment in greater depth.
In addition to the experience of the 16 people - faculty, students and alumni, complute and non-complute librarians - who have been invited to take part, we wanted to incorporate the perspective and methodologies of service design in order to address the issues of co-creation with users that this project raises.
For this purpose, we will count on the participation of Sagrado Nova, who will accompany us as facilitator and strategist in the process.. This is a closed workspace, which will include public moments in which to share materials or open up the processes. The meetings - which will take place in the library itself - will be held every month, starting in January.
On the basis of the questions what this institution and space can be and what we want it to be,The group is named after the famous Indian librarian S. R. Ranganathan. Siyali Ramamrita Ranganathan (1892-1972), an Indian mathematician and librarian who revolutionised the field of library science and documentation with his “Five Laws of Library Science” and the development of the colonised or faceted classification.
Taking his name, we would like to pay tribute to the legacy of this non-Western librarian within the Eurocentric institution of the archive., and to understand the project as part of and indebted to this genealogy. We will soon announce the members of the group as well as the first public session in February with the anthropologist of reading Michèlle Petit.
Stay tuned *_*
View the Ranganathan 1 group photo gallery (here).
See the Ranganathan 2 group photo gallery (here).
See the Ranganathan 3 group photo gallery (here).
